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My view on yesterday's posting | by leowic | 2001-11-07 07:31:54 |
| many small annoyances make a big one... |
by SD Maruko-kun |
2001-11-07 08:56:57 |
>2. We don't care what combinations of hardware you have on your computer,
AKA: since windows is the dominant desktop platform, almost all
hardware producers (only) write windows drivers for their hardware. :(
The Linux developers have probably spent _more_ time working
on hardware drivers for Linux than Microsoft developers on
hardware drivers for windows, since they can just fork 90+%
of that work over to the hardware producers.
>3. It's O.k. if you don't if know much about setting up you
>computer, our installation process will take care of it.
...and install a whole bunch of things insecurely...
(and so also did/do a bunch of Linux distributions; disabling
the FTP and telnet servers was about the first thing I did
after installing Slackware 3.4 (don't know if slack 7 was still
that stupid))
Getting back to windows:
A story from my win98: after some time I noticed some strange
behaviour; whenever I played a file in realplayer and left
the player open for a few minutes after the file had stopped,
the PC started 'locking up' for about 10 sec. durations every
minute...
It being a dual booting lin/win box, the lockups seemed to look
the most like the SCSI reset that happens whenever a SCSI Linux kernel module
is being loaded. But how could that be? The windoze realplayer
had played a file from IDE disk and not from the SCSI CD-ROM drive...
I haven't been able to find out how and why some userland stuff
got (probably) somehow tied into the (lowlevel) filesystem/SCSI layer (IMNSHO windoze just isn't built to ID & kill problems),
but when that problem spread beyond only happening with realplayer,
the only solution was to wipe everything and reinstall win98,
all drivers _and_ all applications.[1]
A story from my father's win98:
recently it has started acting weird: going to '110%' load at
certain moments...
Symptoms: when normally moving the mouse, it jumps in about
100 pixel steps, starting a 2MB executable (that doesn't drag
a whole bunch of DLLs with it) takes 1-2 minutes, sound hickups
and other such stuff...
Since the precise cause would be near impossible to track down
in windoze, I advised him to backup his files to CD-RW and then
apply the "standard windows solution" (TM) of reinstalling windows.
He doesn't want to, since he'd then also have to reinstall
a few dozen programs (see [1]), which he doesn't feel like
and doesn't want to spend time on, so he continues using
that 'limping' 500 MHz Pentium II(?) as is...
I prefer an OS where I can fix the particular problems without
having to reinstall the complete OS plus all its programs.
BTW, only a few days ago I found out both my parents' PCs
also exported file & printer sharing over the dialup connections
instead of just over the ethernet... ARGH! I still got some
old files plus a username+password on one of them and they
are potentially sharing those with the whole world... :(
Braindead win98... LART, LART!
BTW2, if MS products are not expensive, why are they still making
such huge profits (and high profit percentage compared to sales)while its going much worse with most companies, especially in
the computer business?.. (hmm, no win95 etc. in the bargain bin
either between the 2 year old games and older programs...)
</rant>
SD Maruko-kun
[1] because of that stupid moronic thing called the registry:
an OS reinstall should _not_ wipe all the config info of the programs!
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i've seen a really weird glitch with w98 | by i_am_pi | 2001-11-07 10:36:13 |
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system monitor != top | by SD Maruko-kun | 2001-11-07 11:10:56 |
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